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My name is Jeanette and I am a clutterer. There, I said it. That’s NOT the same as a hoarder, by the way. My piles are only knee-high and they don’t invade every room. There’s only one room in my house (a small one) that isn’t useable due to the clutter, which is a huge improvement. Do I like it this way? No. Do I find myself watching HGTV and wishing my house looked like the ones they show on there. Yes. Do I do anything about it? Sometimes.

This is really in my house. If you came over you’d never see it. But it’s there. And I just noticed that (how funny is this?) that the blue book on the right is “One Year to an Organized Life”. Yeah, like that worked.

It takes time. I like to devote a large chunk of time to organizing. Do I need everything that is in this picture. Probably not, but MOST of it I do. I just tonight was looking for a disk that I needed and…HA! I found it!

There’s are professional organizers. And there are psychologists that specialize in helping hoarders (which I’m not) get rid of their shit. Both in their heads and their actual THINGS that they are keeping.

Why do I keep all this? I think it has something to do with the fact that I am an Army brat. I moved every three years of my life (a few times I moved after a year or two). “They” say that can create some issues in people that they either keep almost nothing or they hold on to a lot of things. I’m the latter. I have notes that I passed in class in high school. Recently I did throw some of them away but my friends Celianna and Autumn will laugh out loud someday when they see some of the things they wrote and drew back in those days! I have papers I wrote in high school, college and grad school. What the hell do I need those for?

What I find the funniest is that when I do organize and purge I feel amazing. It’s fun to do, takes way less time than I thought it would and I feel like my space is one I don’t want to leave. But yet it’s been years since my whole house felt like a zen space. That’s the goal for 2013.

Tell me I’m not the only one. Share an organizing tip. Interested in sharing organizing energy?–I’ll come to your house for a day and you’ll come to mine for a day? Just holla, girlfriend!